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#StopHinduGenocide

[Aditya @_adityaa21]

How to identify a Tier 3 engineering student:

• Has 20 tabs open: DSA, React, Aptitude, Resume, LinkedIn.
• Knows more about off-campus hiring than campus placements.
• Every project is "Full Stack + AI + Cloud" on the resume.
• Refreshes LinkedIn more than Instagram.
• Gives interviews just to know what companies ask.
• Celebrates getting an OA link like it's an offer letter.
• Has 50+ rejection emails but still says, "Next one might be it."

Corporate calls it "lack of experience."

We call it survival.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Meditation is the meta habit of habits

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

How to Learn Anything Faster.

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

Drill this into your brain: What you want 10 years from now will be entirely different from what you want right now. Optimizing the rest of your life for what you want right now and deferring what you want right now for later in life are equally dangerous. The 20-year-old brain yearns to travel the world because it's encoded for exploration. They're told to wait until they've made it, and spend the next 30 years daydreaming about the day they retire, only to reach that point and realize their 60-year-old brain wants different things.

Your goal should be to achieve that which feeds your soul right now, while building towards what you anticipate to matter in the future. This requires a level of multi-order thinking that most can't entertain, which is why they end up deferring their entire life or becoming slaves to immediate gratification.

We see this play out into two archetypes: The Peter Pan and the masochist. One sacrifices his future for the present, and one sacrifices his present for the future. Neither enjoys the full human experience. As with all things, the one who can learn from both, avoid common pitfalls, and forge his own path truly wins in the end.

[Semen Retention Archive @semenarchive]

Semen retention is the conservation of energy in your energy body. We have the core 7 chakras in the body. Semen retention builds energy in the root chakra, which flows up into the higher centers. When practiced over time, this is essentially an energetic upgrade.

[Aravind @aravind]

All knowledge already exists. Your mind is just a conduit. If you apply your mind and concentrate on a problem hard enough, the solution will appear. Or you can just meditate hard enough to access all knowledge, in Turiya. You can be Ramanjujan or the Buddha. The choice is yours.

[Slava Akhmechet @spakhm]

Long range career advice. (Won't help you get a job tomorrow, this is a ~10-20 year thing)

You want to run two processes. Your main loop:

1. Knock on doors, many outside your league, and get yourself in a room with the most competent people who will have you.
2. Work your ass off to be reliably useful to them. Like, really, _really_ hard. However hard you think you're working to be reliably useful, work ten times harder. Also, be cheerful.
3. Every once in a while pop your head out and go to step 1.

Your background loop: look around for weird asymmetric opportunities. A startup to found/join, a project to hack on, an angel investment into a friend's company, whatever. When your heart sings, jump on it. (You will fail a lot but that's fine so long as you handle failure well, I'll cover that in another post)

In exchange for working really hard you get two things. First, knowledge/experience-- you learn a ton. Second, relationships-- ppl will remember how great it was to work with you. Knowledge and relationships with competent ppl create crazy asymmetric opportunities. You then jump on those. (There is a lot of twitter slop about compounding, well this is what career compounding looks like.)

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Now some failure modes. Do _not_ do this:

"I deserve much better than this company/role, I'm just going to begrudgingly collect a paycheck" --> first, you deserve what the market clears and that's that. Second, if you act this way you'll only hurt yourself. Your colleagues will remember you as a grouch and it will wreck the compounding loop. Third, it's a very unpleasant state to be in, and you should choose not to be in it.

"But I work at Home Depot, what's there to compound?" --> that's extremely shortsighted. Maybe you do a super good job helping a customer who then has an open spot and remembers you. Maybe your store manager becomes a regional manager and calls you. Maybe years down the line your quiet peer is looking for a partner to start their own store. Maybe none of this happens, but it doesn't matter because empirically ppl who try hard to be useful wherever they are tend to do great, and people who don't, don't. (Home Depot is a metaphor, obviously)

"I hate this place, I quit! And anyway they're a faceless corporation that will lay me off any time." --> don't do that. The company may be a faceless corporation, but your colleagues are not faceless. They bet on you, hopefully you did a great job, and now they depend on you. Leaving is never easy, but do it in a way that respects the trust ppl put in you.

"Everyone around me is an idiot, I hate this!" --> maybe they are, or maybe you're not ready and some day will discover you were wrong about this. In any case you can learn from everyone and everything. So do that and be useful, don't break the compounding loop because opportunities will surprise you and things are often not what they seem.

“_I_ should have been promoted not that other guy/why is my manager layering me, screw this!” --> every time that happened i eventually understood I deserved it, you probably do too. Don’t hold grudges, do your best to figure out how to learn from this and move on, it will make sense eventually.

P.S. it helps if you’re a little talented.

[Karthik @kartikktwt]

https://t.co/DSofICCJCp

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

>feel uncreative
>go on 2 hour walk without phone
>become creative genius

works every time

[🗽 @verritass]

Life feels numb because you've lost childlike curiosity. Constant input has drowned out your ability to wonder. You're sinking in a sewer of slop. You have no idea why you can't stop scrolling, it feels important but you know it just makes you feel more cooked. The access to instant "knowing" has destroyed your ability to curiously wonder. To imagine what may be. Now if you're unsure of something. AI can tell you. All of your curiosity is nuked by how easy it is to receive a "satisfying answer". Doomscrolling happens because instead of wondering about life's mysteries, you can just scroll 1000 reels in one night and claim "I KNOW HOW IT WORKS NOW!" when you only saw 1000 substanceless "satisfying answers" (hacking your caveman brain btw). Boredom is the first step to give space for childlike wonder to come back. As a child you become curious about simple silly things like what does da carpet tastes like?? but as an adult you have the ability to become curious about genuinely fulfils you and the experience of this journey is life's most precious thing. I promise you. If you can spend a enough time in true boredom frequently enough. The magic of your natural curiosity will come back and all you have to do is follow it.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Elon Musk on feedback loop:

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

if you are btwn 25-40 yo

do not go to bed today until you have done exactly what i’m about to tell you to do

define what success really means to you

pick a piece of paper, write your name on top of it and then under that, say, what success means to me and then DEFINE that for yourself and to yourself.

& until you do that

you are not on your way to anywhere

[alexei @alexeixbt]

game theory fix for lack of willpower:

eliminate choice entirely.

hernán cortés burned his ships so his troops couldn't retreat.

you don't need more discipline. you need a commitment device, a constraint that makes backing out mathematically impossible.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

[alexei @alexeixbt]

the plan is simple: become an absolute beast in every area of life or die trying. savage in discipline. relentless in purpose. ruthless with distractions. unbreakable in character. dangerous with knowledge. ferocious in execution. dominate your mind, master your body, strengthen your spirit, build your wealth, and protect your peace. leave no weakness unchallenged and no potential untouched.

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

Your timeline wants you to have it in 2 years

Get it in 6 momths, enjoy it for a year then plot your next ascension

Smaller timelines. Higher leverage moves

[LifeMathMoney ₿ | Unapologetic Truths. @LifeMathMoney]

Discomfort + Boredom + High Energy Levels = Motivation and Drive

If you are missing any one of them, it reduces your chances of success

If you are too comfortable, you won't want to risk it

If you are too entertained, you have nothing to work for

If you have low energy levels, you simply feel too drained to do anything

Gotta manage all 3